Work Precariousness and Unemployment as Consequences of Neoliberalism and Globalization

Abstract

The article takes a look back at the concept of work and its evolution up to globalized society, in the sense of its precariousness and the job crisis that has been present since the eighties in the 20th Century. The way in which machines are steadily replacing the work force since the Industrial Revolution is argued, as well as how measures have been taken to promote unemployment and underemployment as a result of globalization and neoliberalism, to the point that there has been talk about the end of the wage-earning work paradigm or its radical transformation into another type of proposals that are ultimately reducing the employment possibilities of people nowadays.